Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

I wouldn’t say she is open-minded about her views of the Middle East so much as empty headed.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

I agree some people are biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything they don't agree with, but I do believe they're also ignorant. I think they're dumb as skunks. I don't think they've been educated. They haven't the ability to hear and listen to common sense and understand what it is.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.